Stop-payment check-register.



No. 737,478. PATENTED AUG. '25, 1903. J. H. RAND.

STOP PAYMENT CHECK REGISTER.

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PATENTED AUG. 25, 1903-. J. H. RAND. STOP PAYMENT CHECK REGISTER.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. 20. 1903. N0 MODEL.

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JAMES H. RAND, OF NORTH TONAWANDA, NEWV YORK.

STOP-PAYMENT CHECK-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,478, dated August 25, 1903.

Serial No. 153,385. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. RAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Tonawanda, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stop-Payment Check- Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an alphabetical register or indicator capable of a variety of uses, but designed more especially for usein banks for showing at a glance to the teller or bookkeeper the list of checks on which payment has been stopped.

The object of my invention is the provision of a changeable or adjustable register of this character which permits new check entries to be readily added orinserted in the register in such a manner as to keep, the makers" names in regular alphabetical order.

In the accompanying drawings, consisting of two sheets, Figure 1 is a face View of my improved register. Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged transverse sections of the same in lines 2 2 and 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. at is a section similar to Fig. 3, showing the name or record slip withdrawn sufficiently to release the holder, the latter being raised at one end preparatory to removing it from the register. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of the register on an enlarged scale. Fig. 6 is a face view of one of the detached slip-holders.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A indicates a stiff back or support forming the body of the register and consisting, preferably, of cardboard covered with leather.

To the front side of this back is suitably secured a face-plate 13, preferably of tin, which extends nearly from top to bottom of the back and from side to side thereof. The vertical edges of this face-plate are turned inwardly to form lips, guides, or flanges b b, with which horizontal slip-holders C are adapted to engage. In the construction shown in the drawings the face-plate is secured to the back A by prongs which penetrate the latter; but any other appropriate fastening may be employed for this purpose. The slip-holders C may be of any suitable construction; but each of the same preferably consists of a comparatively narrow strip of tin which is provided atits longitudinal edges Withinwardly-turned lips or flanges 0. These flanges receive removable slips or cards D, bearing a record of the checks on which payment has been stopped. Each of these slip-holders is open at both ends, so that the contained slip may project beyond either end of the holder. The flanges c terminate short of one end of the holder, preferably the right-hand end, so as to leave a locking-tongue or unflanged extension 6 at the end of the holder. This tongue is adapted to engage under the adjacent guideflange b of the face-plate B for retaining that end of the holder against the face-plate, and yet allow the holder to he slid up and down freely for permitting the insertion of another holder above or below it. The opposite or left-hand end of the holder is held in place against the face-plate by the adjacent end of the contained slip, which engages under the left-hand guide-flange b of the face-plate, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The holders are of such a length that when their tongues e are interlocked with the right-hand flange of the face-plate B their opposite ends clear the left-hand flange of said plate, as shown. By this construction, upon withdrawing the slip of a holder clear of the left-hand flange of the face-plate, as shown in Fig. 4, the adjacent end of the holder is released, permitting said end to be raised above the level of the lefthand flange and the holder to be drawn toward the left for disengaging its lockingtongue 6 from the right-hand flange of the plate. The right-hand ends of the slips overlap the adjacent guide-flange b and extend a short distance beyond the edge of the back A, so that the ends of the slips may be conveniently seized for partly or wholly withdrawing them from the holders.

It will now be understood that each slipholder is interlocked at one end with one of the guide-flanges of the register by the holder itself and at its opposite end with the other guide-flange by the slip inserted in the holder. If desired, the holders may be provided with bottom springs f for more reliably holding the slips against endwise displacement.

As shown in Fig. 1, the holder at the top of the column preferably contains a headingslip bearing the words Maker, Indorser, Date, and Amount, in the order named. The slips in the remaining holders bear the names of the makers and indorsers of checks on which payment has been stopped, together with the dates and amounts of the checks. Each slip bears the record of asingle check, and the names of the various makers are arranged in regular alphabetical order in the left hand column of the register, as shown. To insert a new name in the register in proper alphabetical order, a record or description of the check on which payment has been stopped is first entered on the blank slip in one of the holders and the holder is released and removed from the register, as hereinbefore described. The remaining holders are then slid up or down in the guides b b for separating them at the proper place to admit the holder with the new name. This holder is then locked in place by engaging its tongue 6 under the right-hand guide or flange b and then pushing the slip farther into the holder to engage its left-hand end under the corresponding flange b. In this manner new names can be readily added to the register or inserted before or after any name previously placed in the same for keeping all of the names in proper alphabetical order and in close and compact succession throughout the index. The register is very convenient in use and saves the time and trouble of rewriting the list of stop-payment checks from time to time, as is necessary in the ordinary manner of keeping a record of the same.

When the improvement is embodied in a stop-paym ent check-register, the device is intended to be hung up before the bank-teller or bookkeeper, enabling him to see the entire list of such checks practically at a glance.

While the improvement is especially advantageous for this purpose, it is applicable to other uses Where it is desirable to add to and rearrange the names of an alphabetical list of any kind--such, for instance, as the special telephone lists or directories commonly employed in offices and business establishments.

I claim as my invention.

1. A register or similar device, comprising a back or support provided with opposing guides or flanges, a holdereonstructed to engage with one of said guides, and a removable slip arranged in the holder and adapted to engage with the other guide, substantially as set forth.

2. A register comprising a .back provided with opposing guides, a holder constructed to engage with one of said guides and to clear the other, and a slip arranged in the holder and adapted to engage with the last-named guide, substantially as set forth.

3. A register comprising a back or support provided with opposing guides, a holder constructed to clear one of said guides and provided at its opposite end with a tongue or extension adapted to engage with the other guide, and a slip arranged in said holder and engaging with the firstnamed guide and overlapping the last-named guide, substantially as set forth.

4. A register comprising a back or support provided with opposing guides, a holder having longitudinal flanges and a locking-tongue arranged at one end of the holder and adapted to engage with one of said guides, and a slip arranged in said holder and engaging with the other guide, substantially as set forth.

5. A register comprising a back or support, a face-plate applied to said back and provided at its lateral edges with inwardly-turned flanges forming guides, adjustable transverse holders arranged on the face-plate one above another and constructed to engage at one end with one of said guides, and slips arranged in said holders and adapted to engage with the other of said guides, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 11th day of April,

JAMES H. RAND.

Witnesses:

CARL F. GEYER, EMMA M. GRAHAM. 

